education and language. When the EU made the borderlines between European countries less visible, the language boundary remained … competent in one common European language (English is the likely candidate), next to one's own language. Competency is essential …

.The author explains the negative economic role of language diversity in the European Union. The translation practice of the EU is … the EU. Some suggestions for transformation of the EU language policy are presented at the end of the article …

We introduce the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced …. We use the data on language proficiency in EU and show that, in spite of the widespread knowledge of English, the … though French is the second leading language within the EU, the situation is likely to be reversed after the enlargement …

This article introduces the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is … reduced and some EU citizens are denied the use of their own language for official purposes. We use data on language … French is the second leading language within the EU, the recent enlargement could change that situation …